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Post by xlozdob on Aug 23, 2016 21:39:57 GMT
She had a sonic trowel, not screwdriver. In Boundless Sea, she had the trowel (or something she called a trowel). In Marvellous Party, it was the screwdriver. Also, in 'The Sonomancer', she asks Helen if the Doctor has come as the magician, the spiv or the geography teacher, so I think we can safely assume that all her BF appearances as of now are post-THORS.
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Post by constonks on Aug 24, 2016 11:45:22 GMT
In Boundless Sea, she had the trowel (or something she called a trowel). In Marvellous Party, it was the screwdriver. Also, in 'The Sonomancer', she asks Helen if the Doctor has come as the magician, the spiv or the geography teacher, so I think we can safely assume that all her BF appearances as of now are post-THORS. Right! I knew there was a reason I thought the BF stuff was all between Darillium and the Library, not just the Diary stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2019 5:30:24 GMT
thread bump for nostalgia. how did the reality compare to the antici...pation? The me of four years ago makes some good points, but honestly, it seems so natural for Benny and River to have been married at one point now. Ironically for the same reasons outlaid there. Funny how you swing round on these ideas given a bit of time. I think it was rather clever.
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Post by tuigirl on Aug 30, 2019 7:06:34 GMT
Well, as I said before... I had expected a fun and explosive meeting/ team-up with lots of banter. Did we get lots of banter? Definitely. Was it fun? Hmm. Not really. I went into this blindly without reading anybodies reviews, and I am a person who has a hard time dealing with tough emotional stories when unprepared. Needless to say I got a sleepless night out of it, which should be a mark of quality of the writing and the acting (especially McGann). So yes, it was very good.
But I am still missing my little fun banter-y adventure that I can listen to when I am feeling down. Lies in Ruins does not qualify here.
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Post by glutamodo on Aug 30, 2019 11:37:45 GMT
I think BF did it the best way they could. Benny might be a bit shaky on the personal side, but professionally (I'm talking as a Professor of Archeology) I think she's more solid than River, and that gives her a professional confidence. River I think relies more, maybe too much, on techno gizmos. Still, in their own ways, the two are professionally confident, and they both know the Doctor in unique ways. Neither were traditional companions, so a "Rose vs Sarah Jane" kind of meeting is NOT going to happen. I think some people wanted a knock down, drag out slugfest between the two. That might have been "fun" but I think that would not have been right, these two are parallels, not rivals, and both are smart enough to realize it.
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